So I’m in San Francisco at the WordPress Community geek-fest that is WordCamp.

It’s kinda interesting - the usual [x]camp format; the usual 80/20 mix of hackers and non-hackers; the lack of power outlets…

There are a lot of people here who are using WordPress and want more - there is certainly a wave of demand that could see the whole community become a lot stronger.

Spent time in a session this morning on ‘Helping out WordPress’ - the number 1 request is ‘help with support’. I’ll get with a few people and see what can really be done.

After working with Ximian for three years - I’m really wary of reliance on the community; I know it’s active; but without clout nothing moves.

Oh - and I gave out a stack of openSUSE 10.1 DVDs - as well as the link to the running WordPress on openSUSE article that I threw together. I was branded a dreadful person from corporate land for that. The folks at WordCamp who got the openSUSE DVDs were happy though.

As promised here is the ‘HOW-TO’ for running WordPress on openSUSE.

This is a simple three step process:

- install and configure openSUSE
- configure apache and mysql
- install WordPress

I’m off to San Francisco for the day on Saturday to speak at the WordCamp event.